Gamma-ray bursts – a puzzle being resolved ☆
Tsvi Piran,Tsvi Piran +1 more
TLDR
The recent discovery of GRB afterglow has demonstrated that we are on the right track towards the resolution of this long standing puzzle as discussed by the authors, and the current understanding implies that GRBs signal the birth of stellar mass black holes.About:
This article is published in Physics Reports.The article was published on 2000-08-01 and is currently open access. It has received 207 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Gamma-ray burst & Gamma-ray burst progenitors.read more
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Radiation from relativistic shocks in turbulent magnetic fields
Ken-Ichi Nishikawa,Jacek Niemiec,Mikhail V. Medvedev,Bing Zhang,P. E. Hardee,Åke Nordlund,Jacob Trier Frederiksen,Yosuke Mizuno,Helene Sol,Martin Pohl,Dieter H. Hartmann,Mitsuo Oka,Gerald J. Fishman +12 more
TL;DR: In this article, a relativistic particle-in-cell (PIC) code parallelized with MPI was used to investigate long-term particle acceleration associated with an electron-positron jet propagating in an unmagnetized ambient electron and positron plasma.
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Continued Radio Monitoring of the Gamma-Ray Burst 991208
TL;DR: In this paper, radio observations of the afterglow of the bright γ-ray burst GRB 991208 at frequencies of 1.4, 4.9, and 8.5 GHz, taken between two weeks and 300 days after the burst, were combined with extensive optical, millimeter and centimeter measurements and fitted to the standard relativistic blast wave model.
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Particle acceleration during the counterstreaming instability in magnetized pair plasmas
Shinji Saito,Jun-Ichi Sakai +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the electromagnetic counterstreaming instability in unmagnetized pair (electron-positron) plasmas, which is influenced by the external magnetic field parallel to the streaming direction, is investigated both analytically and numerically.
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Analytical Study of Diffusive Relativistic Shock Acceleration
TL;DR: The particle spectral index s is found to be sensitive to D, particularly downstream and at certain angles, which can be used to test collisionless shock models and to observationally constrain D.
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Propagation of neutrinos through magnetized gamma-ray burst fireball
TL;DR: In this paper, the neutrino self-energy is calculated in a weakly magnetized plasma consisting of electrons, protons, neutrons and their anti-particles and also the resonance condition is derived.
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Gamma-ray bursts from stellar mass accretion disks around black holes
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Spectra and light curves of gamma-ray burst afterglows
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the time-averaged gamma-ray burst spectra accumulated by the spectroscopy detectors of the Burst and Transient Source Experiment (BTSE).
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Nucleosynthesis, neutrino bursts and gamma-rays from coalescing neutron stars
David Eichler,David Eichler,Mario Livio,Tsvi Piran,Tsvi Piran,David N. Schramm,David N. Schramm +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, it was pointed out that neutron-star collisions should synthesize neutron-rich heavy elements, thought to be formed by rapid neutron capture (the r-process), and these collisions should produce neutrino bursts and resultant bursts of gamma rays; the latter should comprise a subclass of observable gamma-ray bursts.
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